Complex sentence: Some hours after the installation, a crowd of about 100 people brought the statue down with a rope, damaging it the statue was later put back in place for the inauguration, then taken away for repairs.
Split into simpler sentences: Some hours after the installation, a crowd of about 100 people brought the statue down with a rope, damaging it. The statue was later put back in place for the inauguration, then taken away for repairs.