37Identity of the material facts must be understood to mean a set of concrete circumstances stemming from events which are, in essence, the same, in that they involve the same perpetrator and are inextricably linked together in time and space (see, to that effect, ECtHR, 10 February 2009, Sergey Zolotukhin v. Russia, CE:ECHR:2009:0210JUD001493903, § 83 and 84, and ECtHR, 20 May 2014, Pirttimäki v. Finland, CE:ECHR:2014:0520JUD003523211, § 49 to 52).
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