"Let's get up," says the wife of the family.

The wife, her husband and the two children aged eight and three go upstairs to the villa in the Spanish town of Benahavís earlier than usual to go to bed.

It will probably save their lives.

Too soon afterwards, a powerful explosive charge detonates outside their door.

It kills their three dogs and completely destroys the downstairs.

"Had I not said that, we would be dead now," the wife said, according to the Spanish verdict that SVT Nyheter Skåne has read.

The villa in the Spanish city of Benahavís, which was subjected to the bombing in October 2018, suffered extensive damage, and the family who lived there survived by pure luck.

Photo: Civil Guard

"Intention to kill"

The three men were recently sentenced to severe punishment in Málaga.

All are known to have been part of Malmö's gang criminal world and are suspected of involvement in several murders.

They received 34 years in prison each and must also pay a total of SEK 2.5 million in damages.

In 2018, they were in Spain and were part of the Los Suecos network, which was suspected of being behind brutal murders and bombings on the Spanish sunny coast that year.

Fled Málaga after the bombing

A 35-year-old man was singled out as the one who placed several kilos of explosives at the villa.

He and two assistants then went directly to the target's car workshop and placed another explosive charge.

The motive is believed to be a drug debt that the men would collect.

When the debt was not paid, they blew up the house minutes after the deadline had expired.

Days after the act, the men took the flight to Copenhagen.

Barely two months later, two of them were arrested by Swedish police and extradited to Spain.

At the same time, several others were arrested in Los Suecos in a raid in Málaga.

Was tracked down by Spanish police

The men have been able to be mapped as Spanish police already had ongoing investigations against the members of Los Suecos.

The police had placed track transmitters in their cars and could therefore see exactly how the men were moving.

During the trial, the suspects must have been silent and chosen not to tell anything.

In September, the next trial is expected to begin, where more people will be brought to justice for acting as torpedoes and murdering two men in Marbella and Estepona.